Paladin + 4 Shammys OR 5 Shammy's

[IWestyI]

So, ive come stuck apon a a choice. I am stuck bewteen 5 shammys or 1 paladin and 4 shammys.

I would like to do 5 shammys, simply because pvp will rock and it will be easyer to, it will also look really good around town lol.

But, would a 5 shammy team be able to solo every instance and be able to bash down some heroics? as once i hit 70 i will be planning on doing mainly heroics.

A paladin + shammy team would also save me buying BC for my 5th account untill i reach 60.
So in otherwords, would 5 shammys be able to do most instances + heroics with some decent gear? Or will i need to get my self a paladin.

And one last thing, im pretty sure this PC will just be able to handle 5 wows, but seeing as i cant try it out yet ill ask anyway.

http://www.arbico.co.uk/Arbico-Perfo...r-p-17353.html

I upgraded the graphics card toa 8500GT.
I managed to run 2 WoW's on a 2.4ghz P4 with 1gb ram that was 6/7 years old, so ive got more than double that spec now so surely i would be able to get 5 wows going?

Thanks

[Mith]

While i have no experience 5manning heroic content w/ a shaman team, i can tell you that from a tanking perspective heroics are VERY VERY difficult if not optimally geared. In plate, specced prot, my paladin could not handle heroics until i had snagged a little KZ gear and enchanted/gemmed everything i could. This was due mainly to the HP issue paladins faced prior to a recent patch. So i'd say in theory that a 5 shaman group, while not doomed to failure, will definitly have it a bit harder than a pala+4sham group. The reasons are many, but i won't get too deep into it unless you really want to know.



~ mith

[Vyndree]

There's a search box in your upper right hand corner.

[Chorizotarian]

I don't have any direct experience with the Pentium D, but I'm skeptical that you'd have a good experience running 5 copies of WoW on that system. I have a 4GB Core Duo, and I found that I need to upgrade to a quad proc to get acceptable frame rates with > 3 WoWs. The 2.4 GHz Quad Core Q6600 is going for like $250 US right now. You might consider dual boxing for a while on your current machine until you can save enough to buy something more up to date.

[Vyndree]

O M G.

How many of these threads do we really need?

We should have a "I want to copycat a known working 5-box team but I can't decide WHO TO COPY.... oh, btw, what's a search box?" forum.

[Eteocles]

Boomkin all teh way! Moonfire it all down! Let your Forest of Death©(I forget the combination for the little trademark symbol =( ) tank! Catform and sprint away from bad situations! lolz

[Vyndree]

Write a book on what? I just roll my face on the keyboard and insta-win arenas and instances.

...right?

[BobGnarly]

There are some heroics you could do with 5-shaman, and some parts of other that you could do, but it's doubtful you will be able to do them all without a tank. A shaman can't tank heroic mobs, so it would require some clever approaches to fighting, most notably, kiting.

Here's a guy who did a few that might give you some hope: http://home.comcast.net/~xbx/xbox.htm. He cleared SP iirc.

It's difficult to say exactly what you will and will not be able to do with that computer, why not just try it? I have a core-2 duo with 2G of RAM, and was surprised to find out that I actually could run 5 clients on it (and this is with a 30" monitor too, putting extra strain on the graphics sub-system) just fine as long as I didn't go into a major city or anywhere else with a lot of other players. I didn't think I would be able to, so I'd say give it a try. You might be surprised.

BTW, a big hint about that is to set the background wow processes to have a maxfps of around 15 or so. This will give the foreground process (which is the one you really care about) more space to run. This helped me out a ton.

[Eteocles]

Write a book on what? I just roll my face on the keyboard and insta-win arenas and instances.

...right?

I thought you were Shamen not Warlocks...

[Boylston]

I want to let you in on a little secret. Shaman groups are so 2007...

If you really want to dominate, you'll roll one of the following groups:

4xRogue, 1xHunter (alternatively 5xRogue for maximum DPS)
This is a very, very high DPS group that achieves basically instant-kills every 30 seconds, as opposed to the shaman who have to wait 3min in between NS+EM+CL cooldowns. You start from stealth, so you pick your fights/targets, and use Shadowstep to coordinate massive instant cast damage that your opponent can't avoid. You'll have a little difficulty for the first 50 levels, but if you start a new thread about b00sting your guys, we'll give you some tips on how to do that. Hunter is useful since the pet can be used to tank heroics.


5xPaladins
Changes to retribution have made this more viable since patch 2.3. Huge DPS coupled with very strong survivability. You can bubble and kill someone while your entire team is invulnerable. Alternatively, if you get outnumbered, there is always the indefensible 5xBubbleHearth. You will want to run instances with 1 Prot, 1 Holy, 3 Ret most likely (can swap one Ret for another Prot later for BC heroics). Virtually immune to focus fire on the 5v5 arena scene.


2xFeral Druid, 1xFury Warrior, 1xEnhance Shammy, 1xRogue
Maximum skill/talent synergy with melee damage boosting abilities. Very devastating once you get all your guys on target. Can run a Quad Box setup by just dropping the second Feral Druid and replacing with a friend who is a pocket healer. Incredibly versatile since you have a variety of classes. I have used this setup before personally, so I can email you my macro files when your guys start to need it, around level 45-50...


Ignore the hate about "lrn2search". Most of these folks asked the same questions over and over again when they were new, too.
(You can tell Fursphere has asked a lot of questions, just check out his post count!!)